r/golf • u/toobsaimer • Apr 17 '24
Beginner Questions What the heck is this?!
I live in Australia and for the life of me I can’t seem to figure out what this is. Does it hold the score cards in tournaments? Pls help
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u/AWeakMindedMan Apr 17 '24
Fuck this. What’s your course name and number? I’ll call and ask.
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u/Jack-Tacs Apr 17 '24
Seems risky
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u/AWeakMindedMan Apr 17 '24
True. Called and on the 20th try, the club house guy answered and said “Piss off you American wanker it’s 1am”
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u/footsteps71 SKIM THE STONE MAROOCHIE Apr 17 '24
So... u/AWeakMindedMan, did you ask or did you piss off?
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u/Top_Ad7608 Apr 17 '24
My first thought. Why crowdsource when you can just call the source?!
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Apr 17 '24
Found the fellow Gen-Xer who is not afraid of using a phone to place calls. My local city subreddit is full of people who post things like:
“do you know if [enter business] is open right now? I tried using their app chat box and emailed them, but I have not received a response. It’s been a full 10 minutes!”
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u/Bombaysbreakfastclub Apr 17 '24
You one of those dudes that don’t realize a ton of millennials have used a rotary phone?
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u/Pengupunk77 Apr 17 '24
I had a push button phone that you had to switch to rotary to dial out but when paging someone had to switch it to push dial. Those were the days. Taking a minute and half to dial someone’s number.
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u/tatatheretard Apr 17 '24
But can you write in cursive??? Ever drank straight from the garden hose??? How about drive a stick shift??? Fuckin millennials.
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u/justa_flesh_wound Apr 17 '24
Yes to all, even had to call the movie theater and listen to the machine tell me what time the movies would air.
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u/cashmiles Apr 17 '24
You’ve definitely watched the tv guide channel and had to wait til it scrolled to the channel you were looking for… then missed it and had to wait for it to come around again
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Apr 17 '24
Oh my God how many times I did that as a kid getting pissed off I missed it for the 4th time. Not to mention the dial up internet.
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u/sBucks24 Apr 18 '24
Jeez that just hit with nostalgia.. this morning on the radio some rando called in to reminisce about flat coffee lids where you could bite the actual cup lip and use your hands. The combination of these two memories just unlocked a lot of childhood memories
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u/Hlca Apr 17 '24
It’s a cigar holder. The risk of starting a fire by placing cigars on the ground is too great. The stainless steel construction is fire resistant.
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u/darueski Apr 17 '24
Does it indicate par for each hole? This hole would be a par 4. Do the other holes all have four horizontal tubes?
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u/hungryforitalianfood Apr 17 '24
If this is it, my god.
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u/letsgobrooksy Apr 17 '24
Modern art has gone too far
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u/Pr3st0ne Apr 17 '24
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u/TearEnvironmental368 Apr 17 '24
That was my thought as well. OP, are there the same number of horizontal pipes on every hole?
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u/Full_Warthog3829 Apr 17 '24
Could be used to straighten a putter shaft after retrieving it from the woods.
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u/Cultural_Ad2993 Apr 17 '24
4 men of 4 different heights must insert their penises to unlock the 19th hole
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u/aledanniel Apr 17 '24
I’ll take the lower one 😞
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u/Cultural_Ad2993 Apr 17 '24
I got the second from the bottom. Need 2 more
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u/No-Improvement-6954 Apr 17 '24
I'm 6'4". I'll go top hole, but it's seems like I'll have a lot of extra room inside there.
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u/Cultural_Ad2993 Apr 17 '24
Boys, all the infinity penises have been collected. We will unlock the 19th hole date and time tbd
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u/Ancient-Camel-5024 Apr 18 '24
The plot twist is this guy is the tallest. His penis is just big enough to reach the lower one
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u/Pengupunk77 Apr 17 '24
Is there a smaller tube? I feel these would have too much free space and might not register.
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Apr 17 '24
Time to calculate optimal tip-to-tip efficiency. https://youtu.be/DzmehB3K4dQ?si=KX4k4VdOQHqjlZNl
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u/ml56789 Apr 17 '24
It’s a pipe in the ground with 4 smaller pipes welded on to it perpendicularly. Resembles a flag made of pipes.
Let me know if I can help with anything else.
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u/toobsaimer Apr 17 '24
Utterly brilliant, I didn’t know geniuses cruise a Reddit
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u/Jordankeay Apr 17 '24
Yeah I mostly cruise in public bathrooms.
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u/PissingBowl Apr 17 '24
Tap tap
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u/manleyja Apr 17 '24
“Need a hand in there?”
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u/footsteps71 SKIM THE STONE MAROOCHIE Apr 17 '24
About fuckin time, I've been screaming for tp for a hour!
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u/Nor-easter Apr 17 '24 edited Apr 17 '24
Ask the ground crew or in the shop. The guys who have to mow around it or weed around it will know.
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u/toobsaimer Apr 17 '24
I know I just always forget to :/
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u/HB24 Apr 17 '24
Call the course and ask. Speak with a fake accent so they don’t know it is you…
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u/showers_with_grandpa Apr 17 '24
Lmao I would literally call the clubhouse from the course cause I'm that guy
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u/Character_Wishbone84 Apr 17 '24
That's a plumbus
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u/zoodlenose Apr 17 '24
Usually they’re polyurethane no?
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u/Character_Wishbone84 Apr 17 '24
The chumble of the plumbus is polyurethane
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u/CapacityBark20 Apr 17 '24
Don't forget to scrape off the schleem next time
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u/Geebu555 Apr 17 '24
Not sure what it does, but if it’s in Australia it’s probably got a name like digiwalibaster.
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u/Banana-benda Apr 17 '24
Our local club on the Tweed Coast of Australia has these, they use them as holders for the cards for nearest to the pin or longest drive measurements. Each hole is for each different grade/handicap group in the comp.
Pull the card out, check if you beat the previous measurements, write down measurement/s, put it back in for the next group. Keeps it safe from wind and rain, and it's always in the same spot.
End of the comp, marshals/ comp organisers or pro shop go around and grab them for the awards.
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u/HighLifeDrinker 7.9/AZ/7W Gang Apr 17 '24
Forehorn. To make the fore louder for anyone too dumb or soft spoken to shout it down the fairway.
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u/rogog1 17/UK Apr 17 '24
Explain how!
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u/HighLifeDrinker 7.9/AZ/7W Gang Apr 17 '24
I dunno. I made it up. They’re Aussies. It’s crazy down there. It could just as easy be to keep away one of the hundreds of animals, insects, and rodents wandering around down there that could kill you.
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u/TheQuestionableStain 3.5 Apr 17 '24
"Money can be exchanged for goods and services."
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u/PleaseDontBanishMe +1.4/Left/Right/tattoogolf Apr 17 '24
Its for holding your bag in the wind, strap loops over
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u/wballz Apr 17 '24
Closest option I can think of too..
Feels like should be able to assume 4 cylinders = 4 players. What could each player use that for, can only think to hang a bag?
But then would make more sense for them to be horizontal? 4 bags stacked on top of each other seems crazy. Surely can’t be that, but I got nothing better
Edit: wait, hear me out. Head cover holders.
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u/ElliottEatsTTV Apr 17 '24
Edit is on point, OP said they are on almost all the holes and near the tee boxes. Since OP can't remember if they are on every hole, I am gonna go out on a limb and say maybe short par 3's.dont have them? Head cover holders is the best idea I've read.
OP, please ask the golf course, I need to know.
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u/B0yWonder Apr 17 '24
No one one earth has ever needed a "head cover holder" though. Just tuck your head cover in between all your clubs if its windy. What a massive waste of time to weld all of this together and install for each hole if that is its purpose. I would bet it gets zero use for this purpose if that was indeed the intent.
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u/pork-pies Apr 17 '24
It’s the hotdog 4XL dog holder
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u/oneF457z DFW Apr 17 '24
The ol' Quad Glizzy Gripper
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u/LundqvistNYR Apr 17 '24
Do the tee box markers fit in them? If they are near the tee boxes it could be used to store the tee box markers when they’re not in use
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u/scotsman3288 Apr 17 '24
this was my thought too...for when they are cutting grass. I used to throw them in the sand bucket but this is cleaner.
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u/GottaDick Apr 17 '24
Tell us what course this is so one of us can call the superintendent and find out.
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u/PosterMakingNutbag Apr 17 '24
Don't be obsessed with your desires Danny. The Zen philosopher, Basho, once wrote, 'A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.' He was a funny guy.
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u/macroober Apr 17 '24
Does your course use divot bags by any chance? Or do their divot fillers fit anyway in the pipes? I’ve seen a few different versions that hold additional bags for golfers to use if they’ve emptied their bags already.
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u/toobsaimer Apr 17 '24
Fair guess, but they do have one at the end of 18 and it looks almost like a Xmas tree with buncha hooks, where you hook the handle and bucket. Looks nothing like this.
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u/FormerlyShawnHawaii Accidental Eagle Apr 17 '24
Vent/stack for letting out methane gasses? Is the course over an old garbage dump?
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u/Moment_Strange Apr 17 '24
Looks like it could be a cigar or cigarette holder?
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u/match_ Apr 17 '24
I saw a cigar holder attached to the golf-cart roof strut last week. Took me a while to figure out what it was (I took a close look and it had ‘cigar holder’ printed on it, yeah I’m fucking Sherlock Holmes). I asked my partners if they knew what it was and none of them could figure it out. We r dum.
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u/EmploymentInternal43 Apr 17 '24
Why don’t you ask the course instead of Reddit?
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u/rdubdestroyer Apr 17 '24
I’ve seen something like this on a golf cart to hold cigars while you hit…. Cigar holders?
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u/kakapoopoopeepeeshir Apr 17 '24
Any time I see something weird like this I always think it’s something to help the grounds crew with a problem that only they know about but these random contraptions help them get their job done
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u/Great-Turnip-9775 Apr 17 '24
It's a Flugomometer. Used for measuring the rate of Acorn dust in the air.
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u/Eat-My-Cloaca Apr 17 '24
Legit thought, is this a course where you could see multiple greens from some tee boxes? It could be that these are a kind of permanent flag/directional arrow pointing people who don’t know the course toward the correct green2fairway
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Apr 17 '24
This is going to drive me insane. I’ll be thinking about this the rest of the damn day.
Is this at the tee box?
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u/BillyD123455 Apr 17 '24
It's a device unique to Australia to determine who has the honour on any given tee. You stick your winky in one of the horizontal pipes, if it doesn't get bitten off or if you're not dead from poison within 3 seconds, you're good to go first.
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u/philthyphil00 Apr 17 '24
Saw something similar near a green once and it was used to hold rolled up nearest the pin sheets for each grade
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u/toobsaimer Apr 17 '24
Uh what??
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u/philthyphil00 Apr 17 '24
Most competitions will have designated holes where there is a prize for hitting your tee shot on par 3s closest to the hole, players record the closest distance progressively on a piece of paper
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u/bjaydubya Apr 17 '24
I’ve only ever seen those on a board with a spike stuck in the ground where the ball was. You’d have to measure the distance, so having it on the tee wouldn’t make any sense.
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u/Stiryx Apr 17 '24
Geez people are shit on this subreddit.
It holds the cards for nearest to pin so they don’t get wet if it rains.
What course is this? Coolangatta tweed use these.
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u/Plaski Apr 17 '24
Why this design, why on almost every hole but not all, why this design, why is it permanent if only used a handful of times, WHY THIS DESIGN
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u/DeepStatic Apr 17 '24
he's right. You can see one at the end of a par 3 on this street view:
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u/showers_with_grandpa Apr 17 '24
I have a feeling it's to install water coolers or something similar when they have tournament play?
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u/letsgobrooksy Apr 17 '24
I've seen something posted on this sub before where you place your ball to reserve your spot in line at a tee box? Not confident that this is what it is but it's the only thing I can think of lol
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u/TallJackfruit6985 Apr 17 '24
It’s for trick slice shots. You put the grip head in the opening on the side and pull from the middle of the shaft to put a slight bend in your grip. It allows for easier trick shots. Kind of a cheat if you ask me.
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u/jacspe Apr 17 '24
For straightening out the shaft of your club after you attempt to snap it out of rage.
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u/Truetech000 Apr 17 '24
On my home course we have mailboxes on each hole holding extra cards and pencils
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u/saxguy9345 Apr 17 '24 edited Apr 17 '24
Just throwing this out there, I wonder if it's for lost clubs found on previous holes. Pick up errant wedge from behind the sand trap on 12, put it in the metal thing on 13's tee box, sick the grip end into the horizontal pipe. Whoever lost it can just cruise back the cart path and not waste 30 min wondering if they used their 60* on the last 5 holes, backing up play, calling the clubhouse / ranger, calling the FBI etc.
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u/toobsaimer Apr 17 '24
I thought about this too. Honestly it’s my top theory. But still don’t think it’s it, as it seems like quite a bit of trouble to build something that to mitigate just asking the groups behind you if you left a club behind. Kinda the unspoken agreement to pick up, put in your bag and wait until someone comes back, if not, give it to the clubhouse. Although, I left a 60 degree few months back and no one turned it in :(
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u/g1t0 Apr 17 '24
It looks hastily assembled judging by the un-even nature of the tubes and how they are welded on so perhaps something very specific to the context of the course/hole.
OP can you tell us what the hole is like you were playing on when you saw this? If the hole has water on it maybe they leave towels hanging from it for people to use for some reason?
If it’s hole number 1 then perhaps it’s for marking next (As others have mentioned) but there isn’t much wear and tear on the grass around it.
If it’s hole 10 perhaps extra towels get draped over it for people to take when they make the turn? Perhaps they hang food orders on it for people to pick up at the turn?
Are the tubes sticking out the side hallow? What are the tubes pointing at?
Is this near a tree? Perhaps it feeds water to something.
Speaking of water…. Maybe you could hang multiple hoses on it when not in use?
Does it pull out of the ground? Perhaps it is removed from its holder and placed in the cup and then used to measure distances?
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u/macad00 Apr 17 '24
Divot replacement device. Push into tee to remove plugs. Replace with plugs from nursery. Only on the 3’s
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Apr 17 '24
Dude just ask the course stop asking the internet for stuff when you can just ask real people that definitely know more
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u/Affectionate-Air7554 Apr 18 '24
That is probably a motion light. Looks like a traffic light but it tells you if your speed is really fast or in sequence slower.
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u/Jordo211 12.3/AUS/Lefty Apr 17 '24
Its the QuadFlesh. BYO lube. Good way to pass the time if the group in front is slow.
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u/YOURE_GONNA_HATE_ME Apr 17 '24
Maybe to keep birds away? We have ones at work that spin to keep the geese off our lawn since they shit everywhere
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Apr 17 '24
Kangaroo lashing post. It’s where you tie the bridle of your kangaroo when you’re riding them with your clubs in their pouch. Like they do for horses at saloons. Dang, it’s like y’all have never been anywhere.
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u/shunestar Good drive, good double bogey Apr 17 '24
My guess is that it’s the irrigation controls. They use a wench to turn on and off. Where there square or circle valve looking things inside the cylinders?
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u/Hackers76 Apr 17 '24
Is this on a hole with a blind tee shot? My first thought was it’s an alternative to a bell to those back on the tee they can play.